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2026-07-21T20:17:06Z

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Nice idea... Disappointed I didn't think of it. :-)

2026-07-21T20:07:18Z

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Nice idea... Disappointed I didn't think of it. :-)

Sooooo.... GM in French is BJ?

2026-07-21T19:21:51Z

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Sooooo.... GM in French is BJ?

https://buzz.xyz/ built on nostr

2026-07-21T17:29:00Z

https://buzz.xyz/

built on nostr

👀

2026-07-21T16:47:43Z

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Is that so? Fun fact: I know a long-distance truck driver who ...

2026-07-21T16:45:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…tu6c
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Is that so? Fun fact: I know a long-distance truck driver who absolutely loves his job.

You don't know what you don't know, and when you're ...

2026-07-21T16:41:48Z

You don't know what you don't know, and when you're young you don't even know that.

‘Honey Badger’s Legacy’ by Kenneth Burris Oil on panel ...

2026-07-21T16:31:31Z

‘Honey Badger’s Legacy’ by Kenneth Burris
Oil on panel

“If we know the direction then we have a Legacy” - K Burris

didn’t know it was this much fun

2026-07-21T16:21:33Z

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didn’t know it was this much fun

😂

2026-07-21T16:18:21Z

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Thx for the input. I’m collecting people’s places of ...

2026-07-21T16:17:43Z

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Thx for the input. I’m collecting people’s places of interest.

"The Pheenixx" by @nprofile…wsau Medium: Premium canvas ...

2026-07-21T16:03:08Z

"The Pheenixx" by ⚡Sweedgraffixx⚡ (nprofile…wsau)

Medium: Premium canvas Color: Acrylic, Posca, Montana Colors, AmsterdamColours, Silkscreen

Block time: 909253 Special: partly fluorescent colors

Rarity: unique piece In

Time: approx. 200h

Size: 1000mm x 1000mm x 40mm

Retarded comparison as usual; of course NFT fees are high as a ...

2026-07-21T15:56:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…96me
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Retarded comparison as usual; of course NFT fees are high as a percentage of the output value because they're sending less than a dollar worth of BTC. Such use cases could easily end up spending thousands of percent in fees relative to the output value.

Ultimately you still have yet to realize that you're making bcash arguments. Bitcoin does not guarantee low fees for anyone, it only offers a free market for block space.

You have to be running fips on the computer you want to access it ...

2026-07-21T15:37:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…7hzv
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You have to be running fips on the computer you want to access it from.

https://15.235.3.231/git/laantungir/fips

piñas for sats ...

2026-07-21T15:16:30Z

piñas for sats

Wanted to make a custom desk clamp so learning how to cut ...

2026-07-21T15:31:01Z

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Wanted to make a custom desk clamp so learning how to cut threaded holes. Apparently no tool existed to do this in blender

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2026-07-21T14:51:11Z

UTXO creation occurs when you deposit bitcoin in an address. ...

2026-07-21T14:58:32Z

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UTXO creation occurs when you deposit bitcoin in an address.

Segwit does many things, the increased block weight limit does allow for more throughput. The discount is complicated and a rough estimation rather than precisely tuned for every script type.

quoting
nevent1q…v8gq
It's complicated.

A transaction output:

* is stored in the UTXO set until spent,
* has to be maintained by validating nodes,
* contributes to the state that nodes need for future validation.

By contrast, when that output is eventually spent, much of the data required to authorize the spend—especially signatures—is transient validation data. Once the spend is confirmed, the old UTXO can be deleted from the UTXO set.

So there is a desirable incentive structure:

UTXO creation should be relatively expensive

and

UTXO consumption should be relatively cheap

The witness discount moves Bitcoin in that direction.

Example: P2WPKH

A typical native SegWit P2WPKH input is roughly:

* 41 non-witness bytes → 41 x 4 = 164 WU
* about 107 witness bytes → 107 WU

Total: 271 WU / 67.75 vbytes

A P2WPKH output is 31 bytes, all non-witness:

31 x 4 = 124 WU = 31 vbytes

So consuming a UTXO still costs more than creating one, but the difference is much smaller than it would be if the signature received no discount.

Without the witness discount, that same input would be roughly:

41 + 107 = 148 bytes

versus only 31 bytes for the newly created output.

That would give users a fairly strong incentive to create lots of outputs because creation looks cheap, while later consolidation looks expensive.

With the discount, the ratio is closer to 68 vB input : 31 vB output rather than 148 : 31.

Why this matters for UTXO growth:

Suppose you receive ten small payments.

Later, you want to combine those ten UTXOs into one.

A consolidation transaction has:

* many inputs, which **destroy UTXOs**
* few outputs, which **create UTXOs**

Bitcoin arguably wants such transactions to be reasonably cheap because they reduce the global UTXO set.

The witness discount helps enormously here because most of the bulky part of each input—the authorization data—is discounted.

Conversely, a transaction with:

* one input
* twenty outputs

creates nineteen additional UTXOs.

Those twenty outputs receive **no witness discount**. Their bytes count at the full 4 WU/byte rate.

So the weight system implicitly taxes UTXO proliferation more heavily than it otherwise would.

Thank you @nprofile…xfhy 🫡

2026-07-21T14:53:53Z

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Thank you nprofile1qqsvtjwyqg5jsw4tenfu2vzesmgfwasgh3kl226cwf4j9gkygkvv2cgprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mqz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnymfxfhy (nprofile…xfhy) 🫡

meow

2026-07-21T14:43:04Z

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meow

In the Colorado mountains, intense UV accelerates phenolic ...

2026-07-21T14:00:00Z

In the Colorado mountains, intense UV accelerates phenolic development, while cool nights slow sugar accumulation.

This gives tannins and anthocyanins time to fully develop before the Brix climbs too high.

Picking at 23 Brix isn't the concession it would be in a hotter region, where sugar can race ahead of phenolic development and force growers to pick before it matures.

I pick my Pinot at numbers that would look early in Napa, but taste complete here.

Made my website prettier. Here is a link, and it is a good time ...

2026-07-21T14:33:09Z

Made my website prettier.

Here is a link, and it is a good time to talk about this particular link: https://15.235.3.231

You will notice that it is just an IPv4 address, but that it is using https. Also behind the scenes this IPv4 address is approved by a certificate authority.

What this means is that when your browser goes to this site it should open the site without any warnings.

This wasn't something that was always easy to do in a way that the typical browser will like.

When you rent or put a computer online you get an IP address, and you can put up http://15.235.3.231 right away. It will work, but the typical browser will throw a hissy-fit and scare off 90% of the normies out there. Also having encryption on your connections is a nice thing to have.

Well the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just recently made it much easier to have a website with a certificate for an IPv4 or IPv6 address. If you're interested in more detail, here is a good place to start:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/certbot-and-lets-encrypt-now-support-ip-address-certificates

My personal goal is to try to be as sovereign as possible. While using IPv4 and IPv6 is not as sovereign as using TOR or FIPS, it is a great intermidate step. Not only do you not have to get permission to rent a domain name, the site ends up being faster and more private because the user doesn't have to access the DNS system in order to access your site.

It would be nice to see many more relays on nostr using wss with an IP address. It is a great use case, without much hassle.

Here are my other links to the same page which include even more sovereign means.

[domain] https://laantungir.net
[ipv4] https://15.235.3.231
[ipv6] https://[2607:5300:203:bb5c:4a46:c3d3:1dc3:fbe8]
[tor] http://kn2jam4kyz6s5wacyozo3do3d2zsvh4to45uh7xliulwdust6zjuvnad.onion
[fips] http://npub1crpldvy49ef8z34wlacwujnfudy4nd7k96aqdx5wgn6ckztz7z8q9t59ud.fips
[n-site] https://npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06.nsite.run

If you feel like you can't leave or everything will fall ...

2026-07-21T13:41:11Z

If you feel like you can't leave or everything will fall apart, or if your team has to constantly ask you for a decision, I have bad news for you.

You're not clear on your goals and priorities.

If you tell your team the priority is always security, they shouldn't have to ask if you about a decision regarding if something is safe or not.

Please join @nprofile…xuel, @nprofile…54t2, and ...

2026-07-21T13:59:13Z

Please join Modibe (nprofile…xuel), frankcorva (nprofile…54t2), and bitcoin_dev (nprofile…pa5j) on Thursday, 23 July, at 10am ET.

They'll be discussing Citrusrate and the importance of knowing the bitcoin price in local currencies across Africa.

Be sure to tune in!

👀

2026-07-21T13:29:43Z

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100%

2026-07-21T13:27:57Z

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100%

Yes… being a nomad is teaching me a lot about living in the ...

2026-07-21T13:27:46Z

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Yes… being a nomad is teaching me a lot about living in the uncertain. Exposing how much we delude ourselves with fake certainty just to feel safe and calm. But life is a constant movement. The challenge is finding our peace within.

Happy birthday! 🥳

2026-07-21T13:26:55Z

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Happy birthday! 🥳

Next week! They said 27th. @npub167n…zu3r 🧐

2026-07-21T13:24:51Z

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Next week! They said 27th.
BTCPrague (npub167n…zu3r) 🧐

This feeds my super-villain fantasies. Now I just need a layer in ...

2026-07-21T11:54:04Z

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This feeds my super-villain fantasies. Now I just need a layer in a volcano.

The only value this chart has is humor value.

2026-07-21T11:29:41Z

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The only value this chart has is humor value.

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2026-07-21T10:59:17Z

It's complicated. A transaction output: * is stored in the ...

2026-07-21T10:41:01Z

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It's complicated.

A transaction output:

* is stored in the UTXO set until spent,
* has to be maintained by validating nodes,
* contributes to the state that nodes need for future validation.

By contrast, when that output is eventually spent, much of the data required to authorize the spend—especially signatures—is transient validation data. Once the spend is confirmed, the old UTXO can be deleted from the UTXO set.

So there is a desirable incentive structure:

UTXO creation should be relatively expensive

and

UTXO consumption should be relatively cheap

The witness discount moves Bitcoin in that direction.

Example: P2WPKH

A typical native SegWit P2WPKH input is roughly:

* 41 non-witness bytes → 41 x 4 = 164 WU
* about 107 witness bytes → 107 WU

Total: 271 WU / 67.75 vbytes

A P2WPKH output is 31 bytes, all non-witness:

31 x 4 = 124 WU = 31 vbytes

So consuming a UTXO still costs more than creating one, but the difference is much smaller than it would be if the signature received no discount.

Without the witness discount, that same input would be roughly:

41 + 107 = 148 bytes

versus only 31 bytes for the newly created output.

That would give users a fairly strong incentive to create lots of outputs because creation looks cheap, while later consolidation looks expensive.

With the discount, the ratio is closer to 68 vB input : 31 vB output rather than 148 : 31.

Why this matters for UTXO growth:

Suppose you receive ten small payments.

Later, you want to combine those ten UTXOs into one.

A consolidation transaction has:

* many inputs, which **destroy UTXOs**
* few outputs, which **create UTXOs**

Bitcoin arguably wants such transactions to be reasonably cheap because they reduce the global UTXO set.

The witness discount helps enormously here because most of the bulky part of each input—the authorization data—is discounted.

Conversely, a transaction with:

* one input
* twenty outputs

creates nineteen additional UTXOs.

Those twenty outputs receive **no witness discount**. Their bytes count at the full 4 WU/byte rate.

So the weight system implicitly taxes UTXO proliferation more heavily than it otherwise would.

Amazing! Would you like to say something about it in our ...

2026-07-21T10:22:50Z

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Amazing! Would you like to say something about it in our community call today?

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0wqq2khgva0mwlsj9kk8sre2g9wf65qw0h4q66dpcykgscj4rm4ge6apwy

Next Community Call Today! Join us for our monthly community call ...

2026-07-21T10:21:52Z

Next Community Call Today!

Join us for our monthly community call to discuss the latest developments in the TollGate project and the future of decentralized internet access.

This is a great opportunity to connect with the core team and other community members, ask questions, and share your ideas.

Date: Today, July 21, 2026

Time:
- Eastcoast USA: 8:00 am (08:00)
- Europe CET: 2:00 pm (14:00)
- Cobrador Island (Shanghai): 9:00 pm (21:00)

What we have been up to:

- v0.5.0 released! The Go backend went through three alpha cycles and shipped stable on July 3rd. Major security hardening: SSRF protection, DoS limits on all reads, RFC 1918 isolation blocking WiFi from upstream LAN, config file lockdown. New NIP-06 identity system derives IPv4, MAC, and BIP39 seed from merchant key. Lightning reliability fixes include quote persistence to disk, exponential backoff, and fuzzy mint URL matching.

- tollgate-rs Rust backend built from scratch into a working mesh payment routing system with metered forwarding, peer-to-peer balance accounting, bidirectional peering, drift detection, and a top-like TUI monitor. Docs for internet exit, GRE tunneling, and mesh architecture merged.

- ESP32 firmware now supports B2B ehash mining settlement with board-to-board mining through TollGate, dual-wallet config, and faucet clients. ESP32-C3 compatibility advancing for balloon deployments with local relay support re-enabled.

- TollGate Android app: full Cashu CDK wallet migration, WiFi-based TollGate discovery with auto-connect, gateway protocol on port 2121, and a complete pay flow with multi-mint auto-rebalance.

- LR2021 throughput reached 1500 kbps. Schematics completed with validated pin connections. GPS-enabled range testing firmware ready for outdoor tests.

- microFIPS mesh now has ESP-NOW transport compiling and flashing on ESP32-C3, Noise IK protocol with golden vector tests, and an LR2021 SPI driver with FLRC framing.

- Community highlight: a working MVP called fips-tollgate has been built, combining FIPS mesh and TollGate to let gateway operators charge for access to a FIPS mesh network using Cashu. Source on ngit.

- Captive portal polished with balance dashboard, DLEQ keyset rotation handling, session-expiry heartbeat, and graceful degradation for missing browser APIs.

- Protocol spec advanced: relay/bootstrap mode for multi-hop token chains, and multiple metrics (time + data) allowed simultaneously.

We will be discussing:
- The v0.5.0 release and what's next.
- Mesh networking progress across FIPS, LR2021, and ESP-NOW.
- Community contributions and how to get involved.
- Open Q&A session at the end.

The Call:
https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/TollGate-Community-Call

Spending Bitcoin

2026-07-21T10:16:43Z

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Spending Bitcoin

cashu tap to pay now supports jacobin conjecture counterexamples. ...

2026-07-21T09:19:16Z

cashu tap to pay now supports jacobin conjecture counterexamples.

Have you been giving thought to your Plan B? Second passport? ...

2026-07-21T09:14:03Z

Have you been giving thought to your Plan B? Second passport? Second residency?
My friends at Expat Money put together a report - download it, browse and learn, plus, it's a way to support my show for free: https://expatmoney.com/efrat

Thx mate 🙌🏻

2026-07-21T09:13:55Z

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Thx mate 🙌🏻

When they talk about ‘security’, it’s never mine. When they ...

2026-07-21T08:51:41Z

When they talk about ‘security’, it’s never mine.
When they talk about ‘defence’, they stockpile weapons against me.
When they talk about ‘family’, it’s only to control me.
When they talk about ‘freedom’, it’s only so they can get away with anything.

another experiment: i converted the ISO-screw openscad code to a ...

2026-07-21T07:33:40Z

another experiment: i converted the ISO-screw openscad code to a blender mesh operator, so that i can cut screws into arbitrary geometry with a "slop" value so that it isn't too tight. programmable matter is very fun.

GM 🌞 Let’s fuck with dictators today.

2026-07-21T06:28:55Z

GM 🌞

Let’s fuck with dictators today.

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2026-07-21T06:13:52Z

@TimechainArtMag

Thank you for including me in the Genesis Edition of "Timechain Art Magazine" ! 🙏
(formally known as "Bitcoin Art Magazine"

This graphic is kind of a "Fan Art" by
@ModeotecArt

- Bitcoin art renaissance
- nostr inspired
- geometric, math symbols

h/t
@asanoha_gold

h/t
@SimplestBTCBook

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2026-07-21T06:03:05Z

Amazing!! 🧡 thx for sharing your thoughts and journey. Keep ...

2026-07-21T05:31:02Z

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Amazing!! 🧡 thx for sharing your thoughts and journey. Keep focusing on what’s important in life 🙌🏻

- Say something sexy. - Summer rain and fresh air...

2026-07-21T02:59:41Z

- Say something sexy.
- Summer rain and fresh air...

Going all in Sept / Oct

2026-07-21T02:03:10Z

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Going all in Sept / Oct

Hell yeah dude

2026-07-21T01:21:51Z

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Hell yeah dude

🧡🫂

2026-07-21T01:19:02Z

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🧡🫂

V4V

2026-07-21T01:16:49Z

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V4V